Nightmare

Nightmare is a high level wrapper for PhantomJS that lets you automate browser tasks.

The goal is to expose just a few simple methods, and have an API that feels synchronous for each block of scripting, rather than deeply nested callbacks. It's designed for automating tasks across sites that don't have APIs.

Examples

Let's search on Yahoo:

var Nightmare = require('nightmare');
new Nightmare()
  .goto('http://yahoo.com')
    .type('input[title="Search"]', 'github nightmare')
    .click('.searchsubmit')
    .run(function (err, nightmare) {
      if (err) return console.log(err);
      console.log('Done!');
    });

Or, let's extract the entirety of Kayak's home page after everything has rendered:

var Nightmare = require('nightmare');
new Nightmare()
  .goto('http://kayak.com')
  .evaluate(function (page) {
    return document.documentElement.innerHTML;
  }, function (res) {
    console.log(res);
  })
  .run();

Or, here's how you might automate a nicely abstracted login + task on Swiftly:

var Nightmare = require('nightmare');
var Swiftly = require('nightmare-swiftly');
new Nightmare()
  .use(Swiftly.login(email, password))
  .use(Swiftly.task(instructions, uploads, path))
  .run(function(err, nightmare){
    if (err) return fn(err);
    fn();
  });

And here's the nightmare-swiftly plugin.

API

new Nightmare(options)

Create a new instance that can navigate around the web.

The available options are:

timeout: how long to wait for page loads, default 5000ms
interval: how frequently to poll for page load state, default 50ms
port: port to mount the phantomjs instance to, default 12301

.goto(url)

Load the page at url.

.back()

Go back to the previous page.

.refresh()

Refresh the current page.

.url(cb)

Get the url of the current page, the signature of the callback is cb(url).

.click(selector)

Clicks the selector element once.

.type(selector, text)

Enters the text provided into the selector element.

.upload(selector, path)

Specify the path to upload into a file input selector element.

.evaluate(fn, cb, [arg1, arg2,...])

Invokes fn on the page with args. On completion it passes the return value of fn as to cb(res). Useful for extracting information from the page.

.wait()

Wait until a page finishes loading, typically after a .click().

.wait(ms)

Wait for ms milliseconds e.g. .wait(5000)

.wait(selector)

Wait until the element selector is present e.g. .wait('#pay-button')

.wait(fn, value, [delay])

Wait until the fn evaluated on the page returns value. Optionally, refresh the page every delay milliseconds, and only check after each refresh.

.screenshot(path)

Saves a screenshot of the current page to the specified path. Useful for debugging.

.useragent(useragent)

Set the useragent used by PhantomJS.

.viewport(width, height)

Set the width and height of the viewport, useful for screenshotting. Weirdly, you have to set the viewport before calling .goto().

.use(plugin)

Useful for using repeated code blocks, see the example with Swiftly login and task creation in the docs above.

.run(cb)

Executes the queue of functions, and calls your cb when the script hits an error or completes the queue. The callback signature is cb(err, nightmare).

Plugins

Here's a list of plugins, pull request to add your own to the list :)

nightmare-swiftly

Usage

You'll need to include the nightmare module, and already have phantomjs itself installed:

$ sudo brew update && brew install phantomjs
$ npm install --save nightmare

License (MIT)

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